Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8088 Films to Buy & Rent
Exonerated, The (2005)
- Dir. Bob Balaban
Feat. Brian Dennehy, Danny Glover, Delroy Lindo…
- Jarring prison drama focusing on six death row inmates that are exonerated just before their executions due to new evidence becoming available.…
Factotum (2005)
- Dir. Bent Hamer
Feat. Matt Dillon, Lili Taylor, Marisa Tomei…
- The most droll and tender adaptation of Charles Bukowski's fiction to date has a stocky Matt Dillon chronicle the meandering adventures of 'Hank…
Familia (2005)
- Dir. Lousie Archambault
Feat. Mylene St-Sauveur, Macha Grenon, Sylvie Moreau
- Multi–faceted, thoroughly entertaining drama centres on the frequently discordant child–rearing beliefs of two friends as they attempt to…
Family Stone, The (2005)
- Dir. Thomas Bezucha
Feat. Sarah Jessica Parker, Diane Keaton, Luke Wilson…
- More considered and better–written than the usual family Christmas comedy plot, this finds Mulroney bringing his fiance (Parker) to his clan's…
Fateless (Sorstalanság) (2005)
- Dir. Lajos Koltai
Feat. Marcell Nagy, Aron Dimeny, Daniel Craig
- Harrowing and distilled vision of the Holocaust adapted from a novel by concentration–camp survivor and Nobel prize–winning author Imre…
Fingersmith (2005)
- Dir. Aisling Walsh
Feat. Elaine Cassidy, Charles Dance, Imelda Staunton…
- BBC teledrama set around a girlish pickpocket (Hawkins) in Victorian London who becomes involved in a nasty plan to defraud a wealthy heiress…
Four Brothers (2005)
- Dir. John Singleton
Feat. Mark Wahlberg, Tyrese Gibson, Andre Benjamin…
- Four adopted brothers of mixed race band together – despite their differences and life problems – to avenge their elderly mother's murder…
Funland (TV Series) (2005)
- Feat. Phillip Jackson, Sarah Smart, Daniel Mays
- A dark–edged 'comedy' from the creators of LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN, this true original melds surreal humour and coarse drama in equal parts,…
Gabrielle (2005)
- Dir. Patrice Chereau
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Pascal Greggory
- Absorbing adaptation of a Joseph Conrad short story coolly dissects the disintegrating marriage of a bourgeois French couple.
Gorgeously framed…
Game 6 (2005)
- Dir. Michael Hoffman
Feat. Michael Keaton, Catherine O'Hara, Griffin Dunne…
- Nicely balanced dramedy about a fretful playwright with a new work opening on Broadway who chooses to instead focus his anxiety on his beloved Red…